HBO Renews The Ricky Gervais Show

The animated comedy series, voiced by Gervais and currently airing new episodes on Fridays at 9/8c, will begin production on the new season later this year. Season 2 is expected to air in 2011.

Gervais' longtime collaborator Stephen Merchant and colleague and friend Karl Pilkington are also featured in the series, which is based on a podcast. Topics discussed in Season 1 include everything from a Serbian man who invented a sex machine for women to a serum that ages dead people backwards.